When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Richard Burton
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
At 34 she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.
I rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it's rather an attractive image.
If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
Well, I don't want to kill myself.
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
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